Here’s the second trailer for Dune: Part Two!
“We believe in Fremen!”
Here’s the trailer for Drive-Away Dolls, which is Ethan Coen’s first non-documentary feature film as a solo director. Apparently, Ethan and his wife, Tricia Cooke, wrote the script for this film back in the early 2000s. For a while, it was expected that Allison Anders would direct the film but, for whatever reason, it didn’t happen and the project was put on hold. Coen and Cooke apparently returned to the script during the COVID lockdowns, using the time to update and refine the story.
Drive-Away Dolls will be released on September 22nd.
Last year, we had Elvis, featuring Austin Butler’s Oscar-nominated turn as the rock and roll icon.
This year, A24 and Sofia Coppola will be giving us Priscilla, starring Cailee Spaeney as Elvis’s wife. The film is not only based on Priscilla’s memoir but apparently, Priscilla is also credited as an executive producer on the film.
Here’s the trailer:
There’s been a lot of controversy about the length of Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film, Killers of the Flower Moon, with many of the same people who regularly praise 150-minute comic book films complaining that Scorsese shouldn’t be allowed to devote over 3 hours and 26 minutes to telling the story of the Osage murders. You can probably already guess from my tone that I have no problem with the idea of watching a 206-minute Martin Scorsese film.
The trailer for Killers of the Flower Moon was released earlier today. (The film itself will be premiering at Cannes in just a few more days.) The trailer looks great, with Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio appearing to be in fine form. (Reportedly, the film’s hero is played by Jesse Plemons but he’s barely glimpsed in the trailer. It makes sense, of course. For a lot of people, one of the main attractions of Killers of the Flower Moon will be a chance to see Scorsese’s two regular leading men, DiCaprio and De Niro in the same film. Yes, I know about This Boy’s Life but come on, that was Michael Caton-Jones. This is Scorsese!) Can you find the wolves in this picture?
In case you were wondering what Hillary Swank has been up to (other than starring on that television show about newspaper in Alaska), here’s your answer! She’s playing an alcoholic in Ordinary Angels, which appears to be another “uplifting, based on a true story” film of 2023. This film is scheduled to be released on October 13th. That’s Friday the 13th, by the way.
Actually, I imagine that this film might do well with an October release date. Consider it to be counter-programming for all the folks who aren’t into horror. Here at TSL, we’ll be in the middle of our annual horrorthon. As the song goes, “if it makes you happy….”
Apparently, A Haunting In Venice is not the only crime-related film that Tina Fey (who one does not usually associate with crime films) has coming out this year. On June 16th, she will be co-starring in Maggie Moore(s), along with Jon Hamm and Nick Mohammed. The film was directed by Hamm’s Mad Men co-star, John Slattery. Here’s the trailer:
Based on a true story, eh? To be honest, the trailer make it look like this film might be trying too hard to be quirky and Coenesque but who knows? Sometimes, a good film gets a bad trailer and, more often, a bad film will get a really good trailer. The cast is certainly talented so we’ll see!